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현앨리스 이야기 : 어느 진보주의자의 삶과 파국적 종말

Untold story of Alice Hyun : Life and Tragic Last of a Korean-American Communist

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소속 및 직함 이화여자대학교
발행기관 역사문제연구소
학술지 역사비평
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수록페이지 범위 및 쪽수 373-408
발행 시기 2025년
키워드 #현앨리스   #박헌영   #이사민   #독립신문   #민간통신검열단   #조선공산당   #1955년 박헌영 재판   #정병준
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Alice Hyun was the first Korean-American who was born in Hawaii, 1903. Her father was Rev. Hyun, Soon, one of the famous Korean independence movement leaders. She was educated in Seoul, Shanghai, and U.S. Also she experienced the shift of Korean movement from nationalism to communism during her stay in Shanghai in early 1920s. She endeavored for the cause of Korean independence and liberation. After she settled in Hawaii, she was involved with the labor movement as well as communist party movement in Hawaii. After the Pearl Harbor, she served as a Japanese linguist of U.S. War Department. After the end of World War II, she was sent to Tokyo as a member of 13 Japanese Nisei Women linguists who reported to the Allied Translator and Interpreter Service(ATIS), Headquarters of Army Forces in Pacific. Alice was transferred to Seoul in December 1945, and attached to the Civil Communication Intelligence Group-Korea(CCIG-K), G-2 Intelligence, United States Army Forces in Korea. She was banished from Korea in the middle of 1946, because of her paralyzing of CCIG-K work as well as her connection with Korean Communist Party. Then she became an active member of radical Korean-American group in LA. The Korean Independence, weekly newspaper was the organ of the group, and Hyun family became the key member of the group. She became more radical, and she was one of the Korean Communists in U.S. according to the letter written by Harold Sunwoo and Lee Samin to Kim Il Sung and Park Hon Young of North Korea in 1948. She went to Pyongyang in 1949, via Czechoslovakia and Soviet Russia. In August 1953, the trial on South Korean Labor Party members was opened, she was named as an key spy who was the leader of U.S. spies ring in North Korea. In 1955, the trial on the ex-Vice Premier of Park Hon Young was started. Park was accused as long time U.S. spy and Alice Hyun as also accused of Park Hon Young's first lover in early 1920 as well as connection key to U.S. intelligence agency.
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